Nancy

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“You are that kind of person. The kind of person who has to do everything with your own hands.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“To you, Mom was always Mom. It never occurred to you that she had once taken her first step, or had once been three or twelve or twenty years old. Mom was Mom. She was born as Mom. Until you saw her running to your uncle like that, it hadn’t dawned on you that she was a human being who harbored the exact same feeling you had for your own brothers, and this realization led to the awareness that she, too, had had a childhood. From then on, you sometimes thought of Mom as a child, as a girl, as a young woman, as a newlywed, as a mother who had just given birth to you.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom